We
more willingly accept our obligation and privilege to help share
the good news and are striving to carry this knowledge of Gods
love to our fellows.

Now
that we know who we are, we must help others know the same. We
who know live on a promontory of grace above a choppy sea from
which we can rescue the shipwrecked and the asleep. But shouted-down
directions are not enough: a thrown rope they will seldom accept,
for those drowning resist deliverance from familiar waters. First
we must tell them of their worth to the Father, for most lack
not a vision of God but of themselves as his beloved sons and
daughters.

Those
resisting have laid down tightly-fitted stones across the pathways
to their souls which shed the water of life like sidewalks do
rain. The willing soul beneath senses but is shut off from the
life above. Beaten, the stones only seat more firmly, but one
with the patience to observe can usually find some loose cobble
through which the spirit may channel life to the parched soul
beneath. The Fathers love rains down from above, and with
but the slightest access to the deserts of the soul, God reveals
himself directly and sets onto the eternal adventure a reborn
son or daughter.

Its
not possible to completely shut out Gods spirit, whose radiating
glow warms the bleakest wall. Neither hurt nor hate can entirely
negate the action of the indwelling spirit, for its powerful currents
move on levels far deeper than the emotional surfaces that occupy
our everyday attention. But how do we help those who only know
to live as they always have, unaware of Gods purposes? What
key opens the gate house to the mansion of their destiny? Can
we be master carvers and lure out the secret figure trapped within
the gnarly bough? Not knowing how flowed the sap to form its tortured
bole, can we free each gesture and swirl of hair when we carve
in twilight and our knife is dull? Who will guide our hands that
we sculpt not where wood should rest? A voice deep within knows
the times and seasons of our brothers moods, when and when
not to speak. Our spirit speaks with his, and if we share in love,
his weary eyes may unmask in remembered echo that place of which
we speak.

The
language of our sharing is less in words than in our daily walk
with God. Love is most clearly seen in the unspoken actions of
daily life, proving that of which tongues only speak. Words alone
are unconvincing, for we show our love in what we do; true affection
surges forth in the way we live.

Spiritual
development depends, first, on the maintenance of a living spiritual
connection with true spiritual forces and, second, on the continuous
bearing of spiritual fruit: yielding the ministry to one's fellows
of that which has been received from one's spiritual benefactors.
100:2.1

"Let
me emphatically state this eternal truth: If you, by truth co-ordination,
learn to exemplify in your lives this beautiful wholeness of righteousness,
your fellow men will then seek after you that they may gain what
you have so acquired. The measure wherewith truth seekers are drawn
to you represents the measure of your truth endowment, your righteousness.
The extent to which you have to go with your message to the people
is, in a way, the measure of your failure to live the whole or righteous
life, the truth-co-ordinated life." 155:1.5

"Are
you fearful, soft, and ease-seeking? Are you afraid to trust
your future in the hands of the God of truth, whose sons you are?
Are you distrustful of the Father, whose children you are? Will
you go back to the easy path of the certainty and intellectual settledness
of the religion of traditional authority, or will you gird yourselves
to go forward with me into that uncertain and troublous future of
proclaiming the new truths of the religion of the spirit, the kingdom
of heaven in the hearts of men?" 155:5.13

"If
any man would come after me, let him disregard himself, take
up his responsibilities daily, and follow me. For whosoever would
save his life selfishly, shall lose it, but whosoever loses his
life for my sake and the gospel's, shall save it. What does it profit
a man to gain the whole world and lose his own soul? What would
a man give in exchange for eternal life? Be not ashamed of me and
my words in this sinful and hypocritical generation, even as I will
not be ashamed to acknowledge you when in glory I appear before
my Father in the presence of all the celestial hosts." 158:7.5

Remember
that you are commissioned to preach this gospel of the kingdom--the
supreme desire to do the Father's will coupled with the supreme
joy of the faith realization of sonship with God--and you must not
allow anything to divert your devotion to this one duty. Let all
mankind benefit from the overflow of your loving spiritual ministry,
enlightening intellectual communion, and uplifting social service;
but none of these humanitarian labors, nor all of them, should be
permitted to take the place of proclaiming the gospel. These mighty
ministrations are the social by-products of the still more mighty
and sublime ministrations and transformations wrought in the heart
of the kingdom believer by the living Spirit of Truth and by the
personal realization that the faith of a spirit-born man confers
the assurance of living fellowship with the eternal God. 178:1.11

You
are not to be passive mystics or colorless ascetics; you should
not become dreamers and drifters, supinely trusting in a fictitious
Providence to provide even the necessities of life. You are indeed
to be gentle in your dealings with erring mortals, patient in your
intercourse with ignorant men, and forbearing under provocation;
but you are also to be valiant in defense of righteousness, mighty
in the promulgation of truth, and aggressive in the preaching of
this gospel of the kingdom, even to the ends of the earth. 178:1.14

Do
not forget that you are commissioned to go forth preaching only
the good news. You are not to attack the old ways; you are skillfully
to put the leaven of new truth in the midst of the old beliefs.
Let the Spirit of Truth do his own work. Let controversy come only
when they who despise the truth force it upon you. But when the
willful unbeliever attacks you, do not hesitate to stand in vigorous
defense of the truth which has saved and sanctified you. 178:1.16

"Go,
then, into all the world proclaiming this gospel of the fatherhood
of God and the brotherhood of men to all nations and races and ever
be wise in your choice of methods for presenting the good news to
the different races and tribes of mankind. Freely you have received
this gospel of the kingdom, and you will freely give the good news
to all nations. Fear not the resistance of evil, for I am with you
always, even to the end of the ages. And my peace I leave with you."
191:4.4

To
Philip he said, "Philip, do you obey me?" Philip answered, "Yes,
Lord, I will obey you even with my life." Then said Jesus: "If you
would obey me, go then into the lands of the gentiles and proclaim
this gospel. The prophets have told you that to obey is better than
to sacrifice. By faith have you become a God-knowing kingdom son.
There is but one law to obey--that is the command to go forth proclaiming
the gospel of the kingdom. Cease to fear men; be unafraid to preach
the good news of eternal life to your fellows who languish in darkness
and hunger for the light of truth." 192:2.11